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Three of San Diego County's Top 10 Crops reached their highest total values in the past decade in the annual Crop Report released by the county this week, while total agriculture values dipped slightly after two straight years of increase. The total value of all agricultural crops and commodities slipped by one-quarter of 1% in the new report, which covers the 2018 growing season, decreasing $4.39 million, from $1,774,206,410 in the 2017 Crop Report to $1,769,815,715....
Summers mean celebrations, get-togethers with families and friends, barbecues and lots and lots of cooking. And nobody wants a bellyache, or worse, a foodborne illness, because bacteria like salmonella, listeria or E. coli crashed their party. So, here are five helpful tips from the San Diego County's Department of Environmental Health to help residents keep their celebration delicious and safe: plan ahead, clean, separate and chill. Plan ahead Before the cooking starts, decid...
A deer mouse trapped during routine monitoring in Warner Springs has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, leading county officials to remind people they should never sweep up or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds and cabins. Hantavirus is not uncommon in San Diego County. However, people are not likely to be exposed to it so long as they keep wild rodents out of their living spaces and structures. Wild rodents generally live...
San Diego County has received a $53,966 state grant to continue efforts to corral a native plant-threatening, fire hazard-creating invasive weed that even Australian cows don't like. Ward's weed has taken over rangelands in Australia and is threatening to invade North America starting in San Diego County, which is home to fragile ecological habitats like coastal sage scrub. County Agriculture, Weights and Measures officials hope the two-year $53,966 grant from the California...
San Diego County is on pace to have one of its busiest years for solar rooftop permits, and it could get busier as a 30% federal tax break to help offset the costs ends in 2019. Through April, the 10th month of the fiscal year that started July 1, 2018, and ends June 30, the Department of Planning and Development Services has issued more than 5,700 residential solar permits. At that pace, the county would issue about 6,900 residential solar permits by the end of the fiscal year, a 25% increase over the previous fiscal year. A...
A deer mouse trapped in routine monitoring in the Fallbrook area has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, prompting San Diego County officials to remind people to never sweep or vacuum up after rodents if they find them in homes, garages, sheds or cabins. County environmental health officials said hantavirus is not uncommon in San Diego, but people are unlikely to be exposed to it if they keep wild rodents out of their living spaces. However, especially with...
San Diego County residents can get a close-up look at an entire squadron of World War II bombers and fighter planes at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad and Ramona Airport. The Collings Foundation's "Wings of Freedom Tour" – World War II bombers, including a B-24 Liberator, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell, and famous fighter planes, including a P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk – will fly in for viewing at McClellan-Palomar, May 2-5, before flying out to Ramona airport,...
County Supervisor Greg Cox and public health and environmental health officials held a West Nile virus prevention kickoff event Tuesday to remind the public that it’s time again for everyone to protect themselves against mosquitoes and the diseases they can spread. Surrounded by “Fight the Bite” educational materials, mosquito-eating fish and real-life examples of where homeowners might find dangerous standing water around their homes, Cox and county public health officer Dr. Wilma Wooten said mosquito-borne illnesses pose...
They're back. San Juan Capistrano may have its swallows, but in San Diego County in the spring has crane flies. Especially after wet winters like the one that passed. Crane flies look like giant mosquitoes, but they're not. Some people think they eat mosquitoes, hence the nicknames "mosquito hawks" and "skeeter eaters," but they don't. What they do is fly around crazily like creepy-crawly bumper cars, bouncing off walls, ceilings and especially lights, like the porch lights...
Several ticks trapped in routine monitoring along Lopez Canyon Trail in Sorrento Valley have tested positive for tularemia, prompting San Diego County Vector Control officials to urge people to remember to protect themselves and their pets when hiking. The best way to do that, county officials said, is to start by wearing insect repellent, proper clothing and by using insect control products on their pets that kill fleas and ticks. Tularemia, also known as "rabbit fever," is...
Three deer mice collected in routine monitoring in Boulevard have tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, San Diego County Vector Control said this week. County officials said it is not uncommon to find hantavirus in wild mice throughout the county, but it is generally unlikely for people to come into contact with hantavirus if they keep wild rodents out of their homes, sheds, garages and workplaces. However, with the arrival of spring cleaning season, Vector... Full story
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved an 11-page list of road work at their March 27 board meeting to send to the state to qualify for an expected $39.5 million in funding from California’s 2017 Senate Bill 1 gas tax, the Road Repair and Accountability Act. In a separate action, the board also received a report from the county’s Department of Public Works identifying potential cost-effective and environmentally sustainable ways to build and protect county roa...
San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday, March 26, to start studying the idea of buying and selling electricity to county residents by scheduling a public workshop April 9 to hear from experts, consumer groups and other jurisdictions. The workshop is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 9, in the board chambers, room 310, at the County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway, in San Diego. Supervisors voted unanimously in February to study the idea of Community Choice Energy programs, also known as c...
San Diego Supervisor Greg Cox and San Diego County officials said Friday that the county’s “Tell Us Now” smartphone app is now available in Spanish – “Reportelo Ahora” – and that people can now also report mosquito-related issues in addition to problems including potholes, air pollution, graffiti and price scanner overcharges. The county introduced the free “Tell Us Now” app in 2017. It was designed to make it as easy as possible for county residents to report problems when they see them, whether it was bumping into a ru...
January's rains have ended, but there are still a couple of potentially rainy months ahead in San Diego County. And through Feb. 10, county residents can still get a discounted, top-of-the-line, $90 Ivy rain barrel to be ready to "harvest" the next rains, cut watering costs and protect beaches, thanks to San Diego County's Watershed Protection Program and the nonprofit Solana Center. In addition that $90 cost could shrink even more – to as little as $25 – for residents who... Full story
Five mice trapped in routine monitoring in southeastern, north central and north areas of the county have tested positive for hantavirus, marking the first appearance of the potentially deadly virus in San Diego County in 2019. San Diego County Vector Control officials reminded residents that they should always protect themselves if they find wild rodents, the main carriers of hantavirus, living in their homes, sheds and garages. Officials said people can do that by...
It could be mealy bugs in that homemade fruit basket, gypsy moth eggs hidden in the wreath from grandma's house, whiteflies in those hand-picked poinsettias or a dangerous plant virus in citrus picked from the backyard. Nobody wants to give – or get – a gift like that. They're not only going to gross somebody out, they could also wreak havoc on San Diego County's $1.77 billion agricultural industry. So, remember this holiday season: don't pack a pest. The holidays are all abo...
Santa's sleigh typically touches down on rooftops, not runways, but four county airports want to help it make that happen – and make this holiday happier for local, less fortunate children. All residents have to do is drop off a new, unwrapped toy into the Toys for Tots donation boxes at Fallbrook Airpark, McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Gillespie Field in El Cajon or Ramona Airport in Ramona. Or they can give their donated toy in person to uniformed U.S. Marines at F...
Cash registers ring and sales are glistening, but make sure your shopping is sweet by double-checking those receipts to insure against accidental overcharging by faulty cash register price scanners. OK, so the last part didn’t rhyme, but you get the idea. Overcharging does happen, and the County’s Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures (AWM) wants to make sure that if you’re shopping, you’re checking your receipts. Every year, AWM inspects more than 1,500 local businesses, checking price-scanning devices, scales...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a new plan Wednesday that could eventually add several hundred miles of safer, more convenient bicycle lanes to roads in and around unincorporated communities. The board voted 4-0, with Supervisor Ron Roberts absent, to approve a new Active Transportation Plan, the first update of the county's bike plan since 2003. The plan will be used to guide the potential addition of bike lanes or bike lane improvements when road projects...
Art doesn't just appear out of thin air; but it can come out of clean air. San Diego County's Air Pollution Control District wants to give local students' artwork illustrating the importance of clean air some free airtime in the district's official 2019 calendar. APCD is inviting all local students – kindergarten through 12th grade – to mail in their original artwork to the district, postmarked by Nov. 2, "depicting clean air messages and ways to reduce air pollution." The...
SAN DIEGO – It's got a new name, a new location and there's more on the menu. The county's Department of Environmental Health has created a new mobile website, www.SDFoodInfo.org, which gives people a quick, easy way to find and get information about thousands of restaurants, food trucks and markets across the county. The site will let people see three years' worth of health inspection results for restaurants, and it will show a map of the restaurants near them, draw street d...
It hasn't shown up here in San Diego County yet, but county Agriculture, Weights and Measures officials urged backyard bird owners to be on the lookout for a highly contagious bird-killing disease: virulent Newcastle disease. San Diego County Agriculture Commissioner Ha Dang urged bird owners to call the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Sick Bird Hotline at (866) 922-2473 if they notice birds exhibiting virulent Newcastle symptoms, such as coughing, sneezing,...
The back-to-school shopping season is back – and that makes it the perfect time for your first pop quiz of the new school year! But don’t worry. This quiz can save you money, by reminding you that everyone needs to check their receipts when shopping, so they’re not overcharged by faulty price scanners. Overcharging errors happen more often than you think. Every year, the County Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures inspects thousands of local businesses to make sure all the equipment they use to charge consu...
Living in San Diego County means enjoying the outdoors, whether it's hitting the beach, hiking in the mountains, visiting a park or just hanging out in the yard or neighborhood. But the outdoors is also bug territory. While the county is not as infamous for bugs as other places in the U.S., such as Minnesota's "unofficial state bird" the mosquito and Florida and the Southeast's blood-sucking "no see um" gnats, San Diego still has bugs that can bite and sting. So here, from the...
